Emax

You have some nice tracks. My favourite is Prance! Jarre meets New Order meets Erasure meets 
euro disco pop :)

/Tristan

On Sat, Mar 20th, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Daniel Baum <daniel@...> wrote:

> Thanks!
> 
> I did some more editing to the vocals in Imaginary Friend today, so
> feel free listen if you like.
> 
> As to my other work; there are another 13 recordings on my site that
> you are quite welcome to listen to. To get somewhat back on topic,
> one of them, called "Song of the Sampler" was entirely recorded on my
> Emax II.
> 
> As for the future, I'm working on it. . .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> D.
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Patrick R 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:28 AM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Imaginary Friend - my latest song
> 
> 
>     
>   Hey Daniel,
> 
>   Yea, I was completely joking about the auto-tune shit. I hear a new
> song with that effect everytime I turn on the radio.
> 
>   I get what you are trying to do lyrically now and it makes sense.
> It is somewhat like Wrong in its repetition.
> 
>   Anyway I look forward to your next song/album!
> 
>   -patrick
> 
>   ________________________________
>   From: Daniel Baum <daniel@...>
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 1:13:01 PM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Imaginary Friend - my latest song
> 
>     
>   Hi Patrick,
> 
>   First of all, apologies for taking a long time to reply to your
> post. Also, 
>   thanks for taking the time to listen to my song and producing such
> a 
>   comprehensive list of suggestions.
> 
>   >First, major applause for completing something you feel happy
> enough with 
>   >to put out there. Second any >crtisims should be taken as trying
> to help. 
>   >And keep in mind I feel this is better than most the shit that is
> on >the 
>   >charts right now. But speaking of the charts, maybe you should add
> some 
>   >auto-tune effect on your >voice. I'm sure you would chart right
> now. . .
> 
>   Thanks! I'm pretty sure you were joking about this, but I went
> ahead and did 
>   it anyway. I used Reaper's own built-in autotune effect. It is not
> too 
>   dominant, and I think it does actually sound marginally better.
> 
>   I'd be very happy to hear what you think of the result:
> 
>   http://alonetone. com/danielb/ tracks/imaginary -friend
> 
>   >What are you going for with the track? What place, what atmosphere
> do you 
>   >want me to be in, or what >feeling do you have or want to envoke
> from the 
>   >song?
> 
>   I wanted it to sound kind of dark and forbidding. I probably
> shouldn't 
>   mention Depeche Mode yet again in connection with this song, but it
> will 
>   give you the general idea The actual inspiration for the basic
> sound came 
>   from an Emulator II demo I found on Youtube. That said, all of the
> sounds 
>   except the drums and the JX-8p pad that I used behind the
> repetition of the 
>   first verse are homemade.
> 
>   Just some thoughts:
> 
>   Structure:
> 
>   > The ending around >3:40-3:43 actually would sound really great at
> the end 
>   > of your bridge before droping >right back into the chorus.
> 
>   The flanging sound (actually Roland JX-8p oscillator sync, there's
> no 
>   flanger used), overlaid with the "filter sweep" DX7 sound, actually
> does 
>   recur in empty spaces throughout the track. At the place you
> mention, it's 
>   shortened.
> 
>   Lyrics:
> 
>   >It is my feeling that I'm being beat over the head with my
> "imginary 
>   >friend".
> 
>   That's kind of the point. People like the one the song describes
> can be 
>   rather obsessive and talk about their imaginary friends
> incessantly.
> 
>   >Effects:
> 
>   >The bass could use some glissandro or a slight susstain to round
> off the 
>   >edges just slightly.
> 
>   Interesting idea. Might not be too easy to achieve on an Emax II.
> Pitch 
>   envelope anyone?
> 
>   >Also, have you tried raising the bass an octave higher?
> 
>   I think it would sound rather plinky.
> 
>   >It sounds really low without the punch and this sometimes occurs
> on bass 
>   >samples that are being played too >low. Some EQ on the bass could
> make it 
>   >fill out a little also,
> 
>   It's not really a bass sample. it's a sample of me saying "taa"
> into my Korg 
>   Radias's vocoder. I did give it some extra EQ.
> 
>   >or layer a real bass sound in there.
> 
>   Don't have one, can't play it.
> 
>   >It made me think of Body Pop and a bit Joy Division so I think it
> is in 
>   >line with exactly what you were going >for. Keep it up!
> 
>   Thanks again for your criticism. I certainly didn't find it to be
> negative, 
>   and frqankly, even if it was, I normally find negative criticism to
> be more 
>   useful than everybody standing in the aisles and cheering. . .
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   Daniel 
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